THE BRITISH government is close to releasing the findings of its inquiry into the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who may have been killed for exposing links between the Russian mafia and associates of Vladimir Putin. Click here for this week’s P.I.D. Radio.

The growing conflict between Sunnis and Shias spread to Asia as a Pakistani general threatened to wipe Iran off the map if any harm comes to Saudi Arabia. This was a not very subtle threat to use nuclear weapons.